Hazrat Umar Ibn Khattab Quotes & Sayings

The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us, and then it's up to the individual (or the family, or the society) to decide what will be brought forth - the virtues or the malevolence. The madness of this planet is largely a result of human being's difficulty in coming into virtuous balance with himself. Lunacy (both collective and individual) results. — Elizabeth Gilbert

It takes nine tailors to make a man. — John Heywood

He had never told any of his children that before, and he saw the wonder in Albus's face when he said it. But now the doors were slamming all along the scarlet train, and the blurred outlines of parents were swarming forward for final kisses, last-minute reminders. Albus jumped into the carriage and Ginny closed the door behind him. Students were hanging from the windows nearest them. A great number of faces, both on the train and off, seemed to be turned toward Harry. — J.K. Rowling

Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community. — Ramana Maharshi

The universe speaks to us, if we have the courage to see it for what it is. — Nikki Rowe

The illusion of free will is straining under the weight of determinism. — Robert Kroese

In medieval times most singers, dancers, and musical performers were, at least in origin, slaves. — Bernard Lewis

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd. — Allen Ginsberg

Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress. — Bruno Tonioli

Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall of London is a thousand years old. You don't talk about it, it's part of your everyday life. The idea that people are in these environments and talking about the past and what happened, it's irrelevant. It's all about living and in this world it was about surviving. — Miles Millar

Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless. — B.F. Skinner

You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of. — Tennessee Williams